Disclaimer: Kishimoto owns Naruto's ass. Not me. Though I do own Charlotte's.

Warning: Language. POV Changes near the end of chapter! I WILL BOLD AND ITALICIZE THE SMILEY BEAR WHERE IT CHANGES AS WELL AS PLACE LINE BREAKS AROUND IT SO NO ONE GETS CONFUSED!

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"I'm going."

"Charlotte, you still are under leave for another two weeks."

"I'm going."

"Charlotte, you are not in the condition to-."

"I'm going."

"Charlotte! Listen to me! You can't go-."

"I'M GOING."

Boy, Kakashi can't seem to get it in his head that I'm going to participate in the chunnin exams. I have been under leave for three weeks already and barely trained (Kakashi never really let me so I had to sneak off with Naruto.) so with the chunnin exams are coming up this week and I'm still in 'resting' mode… I'm very determined that I'm going to participate.

"Dude, just let her go! I can't wait for her to leave so I don't have to hear her annoying bossy voice." Even though Mary was siding with me, she still ends up insulting me. Meh, that was just our relationship right now.

"Thanks, asshole."

"No problem, hoe." Oh yeah, she's getting into cussing more. Seems I'm good at influencing people to be slightly like me in some ways.

Kakashi brought his hand up to his face and face palmed himself. "Charlotte, you could die. You haven't had much experience with your prosthetic arm yet and you will be facing people who are much stronger than you. Also, the chunnin exams are for teams of three, not four! And how would you even know if I recommended your team or not!"

"One: I already almost died. Two: I haven't had much experience because you and everyone else is always yelling at me when I try it. Three: how about I'll be a team of one! And four: YOU KNOW WE CAN DO IT!"

During the three week time skip, I got my new prosthetic arm... which is just like a plank of wood. It is extremely hard to control as this world is not as medically advance to be able to reattach nerve endings together, but I don't really complain about that since they managed to have chakra opening through the wooden arm with holes. I can manipulate the arm to move like a real one, but it drains my chakra fast and I cannot control how much it takes nor how fast it takes it. I would be able to control it by now if someone let me practice. I have to take the arm off sometimes because I'm on the verge of passing out when just using it, not even fighting. Yeah, it has quite the amount of complications. Also, you can see that the color of the wood does not match my skin color so I have to wear long sleeves with gloves so it looks hidden.

I had thought about making a mechanical arm, yet it would take so long and that's not even for the programming part! Now, when studying in college I planned to become a programmer and engineer... let's just say that there is a reason I was hired as a programmer rather than engineer. I can code a whole system in a little less than five hours... yet engineering something takes much more longer and I'm quite impatient. With my failure of a helmet, I was able to create it since most of what I had to do was code with adding some wiring here and there. Just making something from scratch without a base... yeah, that shit is going to take about two months. So, all I focused on was coding and once I was done that, I would start the hard part.

Why must I be such a workaholic?

"You can't just end up going as a team of one. It doesn't work like that."

"I'll talk with the old man! He'll understand!"

"That's not what I'm talking about!"

And queue the bickering.

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So yeah, I went to the Hokage to see if I could get out of my leave early but I have to get a check-up from the hospital to be able to go on missions again. So here I was, in the waiting room, just waiting for my name to be called so I can get my check-up and leave. I was playing on my phone, trying to pass some time as I noticed that some of the webpages I use haven't updated since I came here. In fact, none of the webpages are uploading. They are all staying the same for months on months end. I think that when I traveled here that whatever was already created traveled over with me, but it cannot be updated at all. I also cannot go onto forums or try and communicate with others, otherwise the screen freezes and crashes.

Now, I was playing a little stupid game I found on the app store that came out over a year ago and I'm just playing that. I didn't notice that the whole waiting room was practically empty except with a few nurses whispering to each other quite a bit. Once I did realize, I just stared at them as they whispered and looked at me with questioning eyes... Okay, I know I'm beautiful beyond belief and I rival Aphrodite herself, but no need to stare.

"Is there a Miss Charlotte here?" A grumpy old lady voice called out as she opened the door. I stood up and as I did so, the whispers did not die down. The old lady looked at me with a bored expression and ushered me to follow her, not caring to see if I actually was. I looked back and saw the nurses already scurrying off to the other direction. I shrugged my shoulders and followed the little grump to a random room that seemed to just be for check-ups.

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Yes! Finally!

I have in my hands the paperwork that will allow me to be released from leave two weeks early! Now, I can shove it in Kakashi's face that I'm perfectly fine!

I was walking down the street when I turned the corner and saw... Naruto, Sakura and the trio of little kids and the sand siblings minus Gaara.

TURN AROUND BEFORE YOU ARE NOTICED! TURN AROUND-!

"Charlotte! Help me beat up these guys!"

Damn.

A sigh. "Naruto, why are you always getting into trouble or should I say, why are you always dragging me into your trouble?" The amount of times I had gotten pulled into Naruto's shenanigans is countless. I'm usually just a bystander, yet Naruto always says that I was his accomplice so I get punished as well. After the first fifty times, Kakashi and the Hokage realized that I was always telling the truth when I said I didn't do anything. They believe me over him, even when it was my fault and I put the blame on him. Well, he did play the boy who cried wolf. I was just the wolf in that situation.

"I didn't get into trouble this time! They started it! They have Konohamaru!"

I looked at the duo of sand siblings and just raised an eyebrow. They looked as cocky as in real life as in the show. "Yo, can we have the kid back?" I nonchalantly asked.

Kankuro scoffed at me and spat, "Are you kidding me? This little brat didn't look at where he was going! He bumped into me!"

I crossed my arms (I'm so happy I can do that now with the wooden one since crossing my arms is my default position and without my left arm it felt weird.) and barked back, "Look whose sounding like a brat now. People bump into people all the time. You say sorry and walk separate ways. You don't see strangers wanting to duel just because of a little accident."

Kankuro growled and held out his hand and pulled it back a bit. I let out a yelp as my feet felt like they were kicked from under me and I landed on my back, all the air leaving me. Oh yeah, he can use chakra strings.

Okay, at first I was just going to give a half-assed try to get Konohamaru back, but now I'm pissed. "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, YOU LITTLE FUCKER?!" Never mind that there is children around, I was livid. Kankuro started to chuckle as I stood up, fuming. Temari was smirking and looking down on us like we couldn't do anything against them. Bull-fucking-shit!

I started to stomp over to them and I was reaching into my sweatshirt's sleeve and unlatching the hooks of my prosthetic. The confusion flashed onto their faces as I grabbed the proshetic's wrist and pulled it out of the sleeve.

Their expressions were priceless.

It turned into pure horror as the only thing they knew was that I pulled my arm out of my socket and was now using it like a weapon by swinging it in their direction. Kankuro dropped Konohamaru and he scrambled towards his friends and hid behind them. "Oh my god!" Kankuro screamed as I was threateningly stalking towards him.

"LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT! I WILL BEAT YOU TO WHERE YOU HAVE AN INCH OF LIFE LEFT IN YOU! ARE YOU SERIOUSLY PICKING ON FUCKING CHILDREN AND A HANDICAP PERSON!? DO YOU REALLY FEEL LIKE YOU GAIN POWER AND PRIDE FROM THAT?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" I screamed. I really didn't care that I regarded myself as handicap and I definitely know that he had no idea that I was handicap so I shouldn't really bash on him for that. Yet, it adds to the hilarity of the situation because he was just wide-eyed and gaping like a fish.

I continued to rant until I was right in front of him and started to whack him with the arm and he looked at Temari as he was shielding the beating with his arms and screamed, "What do I do?! Help me!" Temari looked just as confused as everyone else as here I was, a five foot one young little girl with barley any meat on her body and one arm whacking a boy way taller than her and way more bigger than her with her fake arm. I didn't stop my whacking until I felt something hit my head and I paused.

I looked down to see what hit me and saw a pebble... just a really small pebble. I looked up at the tree and saw that Sasuke was sitting there, just watching. Hey, wasn't he supposed to hit Kankuro's hand, not my head.

"Oi, Uchiha. You missed." I spoke as I gestured to Kankuro who was trying to get out of my arm's length.

Sasuke scoffed at me before coolly stating, "No... I didn't."

Oh, that little shit is sooo going to get smacked next.

Sasuke jumped down and joined us as he stared at me, "What are you even doing? You're on leave." Sakura came rushing over and added a, "Yeah! You shouldn't be fighting in the first place!"

I grinned as I bounced up, "Haha! I got released early! So, I can go on missions again! Also," A scoff. "That was not fighting. That was slapping. There's a difference."

Temari and Kankuro seemed to have heard that as they were both glaring daggers at me. I gave them my middle finger as a response. Kankuro growled and stepped forward, "Ugh! I'm tired of you little brats!" He reached for the bandaged object on his back when Temari yelled, "You're going to use Crow?!"

He was nearly about to pull it completely out when a cold voice piped up, "Kankuro. Stop."

Everyone just stopped and stared at the newcomer as Temari and Kankuro gaped at him and stepped back in fear. "G-gaara, listen! We were-!" Temari started, but got cut off by Gaara.

"Shut up. You are being a disgrace to our village." They both shivered and moved away from us as Gaara had his sand wrap around him and he teleported in front of us. He looked at us with a bored expression, "I apologize for their behavior. We didn't mean any harm done." They started to walk away but Sakura halted them, "Wait! Why are you here? No unauthorized ninja from other countries are allowed here without paperwork!" She declared.

Oh, sounds like my time to leave before Gaara has some kind of interest in me and that leads to him wanting to fight me and I die because all I'm good for is a measly punch that wouldn't even be any good if I didn't have chakra morphed into it. I turned around as I tried to ditch it while they were having the conversation I had heard about a million times when Konohamaru wrapped himself around my legs as a 'thank you' hug.

"Thank you, Miss! You're aren't as mean as boss' girlfriend!" He praised as his friends hugged me too, leaving my legs immobile. The conversation ended quickly enough for Sakura to hear the trio thanking me and insulting her, so she turned around and barked at them. They coward behind me and pushed me forward, as I acted as their sheild.

"Uhh..." was the only noise I could make out of my mouth as everyone stared at me. Gaara especially. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO AVOID! FUCK!

"...What is your name?" He questioned. Great. Now I have avoid him for the next month as he will be here for that long. Isn't it wonderful to have a child who kills anyone and everyone have interest in you? Yay.

I let out a groan as I sighed, "It's Charlotte."

He nodded his head and looked to Sasuke to which he responded his own. Naruto seemed excited as he thought that he would be asked next, but they just walked off. "Hey! What about me?!" He yelled but they didn't give him the time of day.

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"Can I help you?" I hesitantly asked as there were two big ANBU guys right outside my door.

"Oh! Is it a character?! MOVE! LET ME HUG THEM!" Mary squealed from her spot on the couch, surrounded by scrolls and books as she was cramming for school. She bounced up from her spot and skipped over to the door to see the two big guys that looked like they could pick both of us up and break us in half. Her eyes widened and then stared at me. "I'm not involved with this!" She then grabbed all of her books and scurried to the backroom.

I paled as the only person who could save me right now just ditched me to save their own skin. MARY! YOU FUCKING WHORE! I looked back to the men very fearful as they towered over me, "Um... would you like to come in?" They ended up barging in by forcefully prying the door so it was open all the way then slammed it shut. Shit, I was immensely intimidated.

"At the hospital and other places, there had been a hacker that hacked into the databases that should not accessed to the public. The databases that were accessed had important data that only specific people should be able to know. We suspect that you might be the culprit."

WAIT WHAT?! I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS JUST WIFI THAT I WAS STEALING NOT DATA THAT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND CONFIDENTIAL! FUCK FUCK FUCK! SHOULD I TELL THE TRUTH AND BE PUNISHED OR LIE AND BE WATCHED UNDER A WATCHFUL EYE?! I MIGHT EVEN BE HUNTED DOWN IF THEY THINK THAT I ENDED UP READING ANY OF IT! FUCKKK! IF THE UNIVERSE WANTED TO KILL ME THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT WHEN I BLEW MY OWN FUCKING ARM OFF! WHY NOT THEN?!

They saw that I was panicking under the intimidation and they looked around my apartment. My laptop was on the desk as I was still working on the code for my new arm before they came. One of the large men walked over and picked it up, "Wait! Don't mess with that! It's expensive-!" I went to yell, but the man had already snapped it in half. Horror flicked onto my face as they continued to smash it into pieces and I brought my hands up to cover my mouth.

Did they just... did they just do that?

The men dropped the laptop onto the floor and faced me. All my hard work. The endless hours of not sleeping and forgetting to eat so I could code were now completely worthless as everything I had made this pass year were on that laptop. And it's all gone.

"This is a warning from Danzo. Don't do it again." And then, they were gone... just like that. They were gone after coming into my home just to threaten me and destroy my hard work and tears. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I crumpled on to the floor as I just gaped at the only thing that actually made me feel like I could make this place a little more homely.

I feel like I'm going to cry.

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I had a lot a different opinions when I thought of the team I was leading. Many of them changed from the beginning and it wasn't something I had anticipated.

First, there was Naruto. He was.. him. Naruto had a lot of energy and he was enthusiastic about whatever he did and that wasn't exactly a bad thing, it just gets him into trouble a lot of the time. He had this one-sided rivalry with Sasuke, that the latter didn't really care about. If anything, he ignored him on purpose to fire Naruto up some more. He is impatient and rushes into things. Yet, even with quite a bit of flaws, he always helps his friends and motivates people to do their best.

Next, there's Sasuke. He is the hardest one to read, but that doesn't mean you can't read him at all. He tries to seem stand-offish and doesn't want to interact with anyone, thinking himself better. He feels like everyone gets in the way and that is his number one weakness. Though, with a team like his, they always manage to have him smirking or even chuckling with the amount of craziness that goes around.

Sakura is full of so much doubt and she needs the most work of all the kids. She gets too fearful when an actual fight happens, she doesn't know what to do, she doubts her own skills so she never ends up fighting. She has so much potential, yet she is the only one who cannot seem to see that. She has improved quite a lot recently though as she has gotten into medical ninjustu and revealed to the team that she wishes to become an iryo-nin. The rest of the team and I believe that she can do it.

Then, there is... Charlotte. Boy, she is sure something. She is a sarcastic, moody, impatient workaholic that can make the vulgar language of a drunken middle-age man. She puts everyone elses needs above her own to the point that she is putting her own life at risk. She sure does have some intelligence though as well as wisdom to the point that she doesn't even seem like her age. None of us in the team know of her past or where exactly she lived (all we know is that it's in the west). She avoids all conversations when talking about her family or past, like she is too hurt to talk about it. While she is very blunt and brash, she does have little moments when she thinks that no one is watching that she just shuts everything out and stares off into space as she just thinks and the only thing we have to tell us what is going on in that head of hers is her facial expressions that she doesn't realize she's making.

This girl... she's going to end up killing herself. She allows other to come into her life, but it seems to be at an arms length, like she trusts you, but not completely. You'll have to gain her trust fully before she'll let you fully in. It's probably a defense mechanism that she developed growing up, she might not be even conscious of the fact that she even does it. This girl is still... still a child, yet she acts like a mature adult when thrown into a situation she didn't expect. She makes sure everyone else is taken care of before she even thinks of herself and she just... boy, I had not thought I would get this attached to these kids so quickly.

I feel like a failure for nearly letting these kids that I was supposed to look after nearly die. Charlotte took the brunt of the knife during the battle with Zabuza when it should have been me. She shouldn't have been the one who had to fight Zabuza head on when I was the one matched in skill. I had let my guard down and she nearly died because of it. All of them nearly died. I had already failed so many people as I wasn't good enough to save them. They always made it their responsibility to protect those they cared about, no matter if they suffered for them. I couldn't let these students-MY students-down just because I wasn't good enough. They seemed to have most of their shit pulled together unlike me. I hope that won't be the case anymore.

"I lead Team 7, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno and Charlotte. I, Hatake Kakashi, recommend all four of them for the chunnin selection exam."

I trust them and their abilities. I hope I won't make the wrong decision once again.

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BOOM! Done! So 3500 words, huh? Not bad, not bad. Only took the whole day to write. Man, this chapter is wild! I like it when I don't have anything really planned when writing as stuff like this happen! :D

But anyways! Tuesday is the next update day!

See you then~!